South African Music Archive Project
Dance music
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- Artist(s): Nyamwezi men (Performer) | Composer: Idi Selemani (Composer)Hashima Bin Kilamata (Performer) | 1950/07/22 | Ankle bell, bell, Dance music, Dance song, Drum, East African, Hashima Bin Kilamata, Hiyari ya moyo, Idi Selemani, Nyamwezi, Nyamwezi, Tabora, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Hiyari ya moyo dance song for men and women with two metal cylindrical drums and ankle bells. Translated English title - "Good bye for now." Further details refer ILAM field card (D4G10)
- Artist(s): Nyamwezi men (Performer) | Composer: Idi Selemani (Composer)Hashima Bin Kilamata (Performer) | 1950/07/22 | Ankle bell, bell, Dance music, Dance song, Drum, East African, Hashima Bin Kilamata, Hiyari ya moyo, Idi Selemani, Nyamwezi, Nyamwezi, Tabora, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Hiyari ya moyo dance song for men and women with two metal cylindrical drums and ankle bells. Translated English title - "Good bye for now." Further details refer ILAM field card (D4G10)
- Artist(s): Tonga girls and youths (Performer) | Composer: France Maborro (Performer) | 1955/10/11 | Bilene, Clapping, Dance music, East African, Folk music, France Maborro, Hlanganu, Indigenous music, Macia, Makwaya, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, Southern African, Tonga, Tonga, ILAM | Makwaya dance song with clapping. Further details refer ILAM field card (H1R6)
- Composer: Kazembe group of men and women (Performer) | 1949/07/19 | Dance music, Drum, Hunting song, Indigenous music, Kawambwa, Kazembe, Luba, Luunda, Northern Rhodesia, Southern African, Zambia, ILAM | Folk song to be sung after hunting with drum accompanimentFurther details refer ILAM field card (C3G10)
- Artist(s): Sukuma men (Performer) | Composer: Konu Ikhongorwa (Composer/Performer) | 1950/07/26 | Dance music, Dance song, East African, Konu Ikhongorwa, Mwanza, Nyamwezi, Sukuma, Sukuma, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Ucheyeki, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Ucheyeki dance song for men and women. Translated English title - "Luwanungu left." Further details refer ILAM field card (D4K12).
- Composer: Musicians of Chief Biniga (Performer) | 1952/07/15 | Central African, Dance music, Drum, East African, East-Central African, Folk music, Horn, Imihamilizo, Indigenous music, Makondere, Musicians of Chief Biniga, Ruanda-Urundi, Rwanda, Rwanda, Shangugu, Tutsi, ILAM | Imihamilizo tutsi dance song with drum and Makondere horn. Further details refer ILAM field card (F3V5)
- Composer: Herriot Mine Nyambane Band (Performer)Composer not specified | 1900-01-00 | banjo, Dance music, Drum, East African, Guitar, Herriot Mine Nyambane Band, Mozambique, Portuguese, Portuguese East Africa, Shaker, Song, Southern African, Stick, Vocal, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM shellac commercial record number: CR0008
- Composer: Musique du 1er Groupement (Performer)Orchestre Opera du 1er Groupement (Performer) | 1952/02/06 | Belgian Congo, Central African, Congo, Cymbal, Dance music, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Drum, Elizabethville, Horn, Musique du 1er Groupement, Ngala, Orchestre Opera du 1er Groupement, Rattle, Rumba, trumpet, ILAM | Rumba dance music with drums (African), trumpets, horns (European), cymbal and rattle. Further details refer ILAM field card (F1V9)
- Composer: Choir of the Church of Shembe (Performer)Isaiah Shembe (Composer) | 1955/01/24 | Choir of the Church of Shembe, Dance music, Drum, Horn, Hymn, Imbungu, Isaiah Shembe, Izigubu, KwaZulu-Natal, Natal, Religious music, Shembe, South Africa, Southern African, Zulu, Zululand, ILAM | Hymn for dancing with Izigubu druma and Imbungu horns. Hymn number 175. Translated English title - "Listen Zulu." Further details refer ILAM field card (H1C7)
- Artist(s): Gogo men (Performer) | Composer: Maduala Zonka (Composer/Performer) | 1950/06/17 | Dance music, Dance song, Dodoma, East African, Gogo, Gogo, Lute, Maduala Zonka, nindo, Rattle, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Zeze, ILAM | Nindo dance song with Zeze double stringed bowed lute and flat tin rattles. Further details refer ILAM field card (D2X11)
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